Blaskó Ágnes

assistant professor, sociodrama leader trainer

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Courses:

Group Dynamics, Responsible Communication

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Investigations & sociodrama

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Various hidden dynamics emerge in different groups based on unspoken, unrecognized norms, commitments, and institutional-structural social constraints. We explore how the knowledge generated through action methods in groups can be described and what its validity is.

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• One of the initiators of the 'Drama as Academic Research' Research Group (DAR-RG) with the purpose of exploring and sharing how dramatic group work (including sociodrama, collaborative theater, psychodrama, forum theater, etc.) could serve as a qualitative research method in social sciences. International group members include: Zsófia Kollányi, Eszter Neumann, Sarah-Jane Lennie, Leyla Safta - Zecheria, Orsolya Lelkes, Vedrana Mirkovic, Lucy Davies 
• Action Research with sociodrama in a Medical Institution with Healthcare Assistants      https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14767503241258875) 
• The Application of Sociodrama as a Qualitative Research Method for Mapping the Work of Music Industry Professionals in Emília Barna's ‘Emotional Labour in Music Industry’ Research (NKFIH FK 128669) https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=AFUIK74AAAAJ&citation_for_view=AFUIK74AAAAJ:NMxIlDl6LWMC
• Assessing the Educational Impact of Drama and Simulation-Based Medical Education, Dramatic Simulation Research Group https://semmelweis.hu/aneszteziologia/kutatas/munkacsoportok/dramatikus-szimulacio-kutatocsoport/
• Using Sociodrama to model the dynamics of Bullying (NKFIH 139383)(Collaboration with: Szabolcs Számadó, Evolutionary Biologist)
• Video Summary of Sociodrama Research Conducted at the University     https://vimeo.com/viastreamklikk/review/829174483/f46c60d226)

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Education & Action Methods

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Action methods and sociodrama democratize knowledge and create a learning environment where everyone can experience democratic processes. We apply action methods in university courses, teach accredited pedagogical training programs, and trainfuture sociodrama facilitators.

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• Courses at Budapest University of Technology and Economics: Group Dynamics, Responsible Communication.
• Integrating Action Methods into the Classroom and School Environment - Accredited Training for Educators (collaboration of Radnóti Theatre, Department of Theater Education - Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Facilitators: Ágnes Blaskó, Móni Durst, Krisztina Galgóczi, Andrea Kocsi 
• Action Method Workshop Series (2023): The series aims to explore for group leaders, drama facilitators, and educators. The workshops aim to explore the methodological possibilities of addressing common group leadership issues.
• Training Sociodrama Facilitators within the Hungarian Psychodrama Association (Blaskó, Durst, Galgóczi,     Kocsi)

Application and Development

Sociodrama and action methods can be used for various purposes including grassroots group and institutional development, educational support, systematic assessment of opinions, supervision and participatory action research. The method is applieda cross various fields, always in a context-specific manner: in different formal and informal groups, and among different social groups. Meanwhile, we document and develop the field-specific applications of sociodrama.

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• Inclusion of LGBTQ Individuals into Religious Communities (2024): The comprehensive aim of the MÉGMIVÉ project’s comprehensive aim is to facilitate dialogue among religious people and gender and sexual minorities, on both individual and societal levels (Hungarian Psychodrama Assication, Háttér Association)

• Handling acute classroom bullying situations, developing its methodological know-how (since 2021)
• Leading the Hungarian Methodological Development Group in the PERFORMERS International Sociodrama Project (link: https://sociodramanetwork.com/our-experts/)
• Development of Communication Skills for Youth at the Budapest Detention Centre (EMMI BP) and University Students (2017- 2019) (with Eszter Pados)
• Connection Opportunities between Playback Theatre and Sociodrama with Ukrainian Refugees (2022) (with György Csillag)
• Collecting and Performing Roma Women’s Stories Using Action Methods at the Omara Exhibition (OFF-Biennale Budapest 2020) (with Tamás Szegedi)

Recent Relevant publications

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• The Process of Sociodrama Ágnes, Blaskó ; Móni, Durst ; Orsolya, Fóti ; Krisztina, Galgóczi ; Kata, Horváth; Andrea, Kocsi ; Eszter, Pados (PSZICHODRÁMA Special Issue pp. 1-66. Paper: ISSN 12152722 , 66 p. (2024))
• Action research with sociodrama in a healthcare institution; Ágnes Blaskó (ACTION RESEARCH Vol 0. p. 1-25 (2024)) https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503241258875
• Using sociodrama to empower nurses: A training Program for addressing workplace issues and staff development (Blaskó Á., Koszta-Blazsek I. (2023, 05)). 
• Music industry workers’ autonomy and (un)changing relations of dependency in the wake of COVID-19 in Hungary: Conclusions of a sociodrama research project; Barna, Emília; Blaskó, Ágnes INTERSECTIONS: EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS 7: 3 pp. 279-298., 20 p. (2021)  https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v7i3.789
• Instead of a Compass: How Can a Sociodrama Leader Make Decision? Ágnes Blaskó In: Galgóczi, Krisztina; Adderley, Diane; Belchior, Margarida; Blaskó, Ágnes; Damjanov, Jana; Maciel, Manuela; Teszáry, Judith; Werner, Mariolina; Westberg, Monica (szerk.) Sociodrama: The Art and Science of Social Change Budapest, Magyarország : L'Harmattan Kiadó (2021) pp. 113-126. , 14 p.
• Your story is our story: Roma Women's Stories Inspired by Omara.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfVXBP-zvWU, (Ágnes Blaskó - Tamás Szegedi, film: Zsófia Szilágyi) Film on the Creation of Roma Women's Stories Using Action Methods at the Omara Exhibition (Andrea Pócsik), Held as Part of RomaMoMa at OFF-Biennale Budapest 2020
• How to enhance psychological fidelity in simulation-based medical education. Ágnes Blaskó; Krisztina Komlos; Gábor Fritúz, G;János Gál, MEDICAL EDUCATION 51:11 pp. 1179-1179., 1p. (2017) https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13432

• Comparision of psychological fidelity of drama and simulation based medical education (DSBME) and simulation based medical education (SBME) – A study design Fritúz, Gábor; Blaskó, Ágnes; Kasos, Krisztián; Varga, Katalin; Eke, Csaba ; Gál, János RESUSCITATION 130 p. e 85 (2018)